KDIS-FM (99.5
FM, "FaithTalk 99.5") is a
radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...
licensed to
Little Rock, Arkansas
( The "Little Rock")
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, United States. The station is owned by the
Salem Media Group
Salem Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SALM; formerly Salem Communications Corporation) is an American Radio broadcasting, radio broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher formerly based in Camarillo, California (moved mo ...
, through licensee Salem Communications Holding Corporation.
History
The station went on the air as KLVV on July 26, 1991. On February 1, 1992, the station changed its call sign to KYFX. On August 7, 2003, the station switched calls to the current KDIS-FM.
In June 2013, Disney put KDIS-FM and six other
Radio Disney
Radio Disney was an American radio network operated by the Disney Radio Networks unit of Disney Branded Television within the Disney General Entertainment Content, headquartered in Burbank, California.
The network broadcast music programming ...
stations in medium markets up for sale, in order to refocus the network's broadcast distribution on top-25 markets.
On July 31, 2013, KDIS-FM dropped the Radio Disney affiliation and went
silent
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People with the name
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; in October, Disney filed to sell KDIS-FM, as well as
KRDY
KRDY (1160 AM) is a radio station in San Antonio, Texas. The station is owned by Relevant Radio, Inc. and is an affiliate of its Catholic talk network. The transmitter is off Braun Road, near Loop 1604, in San Antonio.
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in
San Antonio, Texas
("Cradle of Freedom")
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, to
Salem Communications
Salem Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SALM; formerly Salem Communications Corporation) is an American radio broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher formerly based in Camarillo, California (moved most operations to Ir ...
Corporation.
The purchase by Salem, at a price of $2 million, was consummated on February 7, 2014.
On February 24, 2014, KDIS-FM returned to the air with Christian talk, branded as "Faith Talk 99.5."
Faith Talk Launches in Little Rock
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References
External links
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Mass media in Little Rock, Arkansas
Salem Media Group properties
Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company
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